PHOTO CREDIT: Above photo by John Rickman Photography, San Jose, California.

This is a translation of the advertisement that was used to promote a show by the Victoria Mousa Troupe in the rooftop theater above El Bosphore Casino. The ad appeared on page 5 of Al Ahram newspaper on October 31, 1926. This was 10 years before Imtithal Fawzy was brutally murdered on that very stage.

ABOUT THE PHOTO: The theater where this show occurred was at Ramses Square, which is where the modern-day Cairo train station stands. At the time of this show, the site did not yet have the statue of Ramses that this photo shows.

Click on the image below to see the advertisement in more detail.

Victoria Theater

In Midan El Mahata in Front of The Nahdet Masr Statue

Above The Bosphore Casino

For the Victoria Mousa Troupe

Opening Soon

A Theater Among The Most Luxurious Theaters In The Capital

Easy Access From All Areas of the City

Perfectly Prepared Stage Sets, Theater Equipment and Costumes

20 New Plays to be Presented This Season

Written by Important Playwrights

They have a Beautiful Style as well as a Moral...

Dance Troupe... Musical Group.... The Actor's Troupe

is Made up of the Teachers of the Art in Egypt

And Leading them All

Victoria Mousa

Await the Show

• 1920 Ad for the Show at El Bosphore Casino. Translated by Priscilla Adum. An advertisement for El Bosphore Casino, the club that was in the ground floor nightclub of the same buildng as where Victoria Moussa's show was presented.
• Casino El-Bosphore: The Search for a Murder Scene. By Priscilla Adum. Examines information about El Bosphore, the building whose rooftop café theater was referenced by this ad, in a quest to pinpoint where it was located.

• Imtithal Fawzy: Extortion During the Golden Era. Translated by Priscilla Adum. Article about a tragic murder that occurred on this same rooftop café in 1936.
• Imtithal Fawzy: The Murder of a Beautiful Dancer. By Priscilla Adum. Another article about the tragic murder of Imtithal at this site in 1936.

Priscilla is a dancer of Lebanese heritage who enjoys researching the Golden Era of Egyptian dance. She owns a collection of more than one hundred classic black and white Egyptian films which is continually expanding.

Priscilla has also gathered a large library of dance related articles and clippings from Middle Eastern magazines and newspapers, many of which she has translated from the original Arabic to both English and Spanish.

Priscilla currently resides in Central America where she is a dance instructor.